And the Lord said unto Cain,
Where is Abel thy brother?
And he
said,
I know not:
Am I
my
brother's keeper?
***
And God looked upon the earth,
and, behold,
it
was corrupt; for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth.
And God
said unto Noah,
The end
of all
flesh is come -
before me;
for
the earth is
filled with violence through them;
and, behold,
I will destroy them with the earth.
***
And he
said,
Hear now
my words: If there
be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known
unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
***
But
the prophet, which shall
presume to speak a word in my
name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods,
even that prophet shall die.
***
Make thee
an ark of god prophets blood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it
within and without with pitch.
And
this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits,
the breadth of it fifty cubits,
and the height of it thirty cubits.
A
window shalt thou make to the ark,
and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above;
and the door of the ark
shalt thou set in the side
thereof; with lower, second, and third
stories shalt thou make it.
*
And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord;
and took of
every clean beast,
and of
every clean fowl,
and offered burnt offerings
on the altar.
***
And Isaac spake unto Abraham - his father,
and said,
My father:
and he said,
Here
am I, my son.
And he
said,
Behold the fire and
the wood:
but where is the lamb
for a burnt offering?
And Abraham
said,
My son, God
will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering:
so they - went both - of them - together.
***
And in process
of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend
Hirah the Adullamite.
And it
was told Tamar, saying,
Behold thy father
in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
And she put
her widow's garments off
from her,
and covered her
with a veil,
and wrapped herself,
and sat in an open place,
which is by the way to Timnath; for she
saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
When Judah
saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.
And he
turned unto her
by the way,
and said,
Go to, I pray thee,
let me come in
unto thee; (for he knew not that she
was his daughter in law.)
And she
said,
What wilt thou
give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
And he
said,
I
will send thee a kid from the flock.
And she
said,
Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
And he
said,
What pledge shall I give thee?
And she
said,
Thy signet,
and thy
bracelets,
and thy staff
that is in thine hand.
And he
gave it her,
and came in
unto her,
and she
conceived by him.
And she arose,
and went away,
and laid by her
veil from her,
and put on
the garments of her widowhood.
And Judah
sent the kid by the hand of his friend
the Adullamite, to receive his pledge
from the woman's hand; but he found her not.
Then he asked
the men of that place, saying,
Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side?
And they
said,
There was no harlot in
this place.
And he returned to Judah, and said,
I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
And Judah said,
Let her take it to her, lest we
be shamed:
And it
came to pass about three months after,
that it was told Judah, saying,
Tamar thy daughter
in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom.
And Judah
said,
Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in
law, saying,
By the man, whose these are, am I
with child: and she said,
Discern, I pray thee,
whose are these, the signet,
and
bracelets,
and staff.
And Judah acknowledged them,
and said,
She hath been more
righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my
son.
And he knew her again no more.
***
And out of
the ground made the Lord
God to grow every tree that is pleasant
to the sight, and good for food; the tree
of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and d-evil.
And a river
went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four
heads.
*****
Lord God, whereby shall - I know -
that
I shall inherit it?
And he
said unto him,
Take me an heifer of three years old,
*****
And he
said, Behold now, I am old, - I know not the day
of my death:
Now therefore
take, I pray thee,
thy weapons,
- thy quiver
and thy bow,
and go out to the field, - and take me some venison;
And make me savoury meat, such as I love,
and bring it to me, that I may
eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to
bring it.
***
And Rebekah spake
unto Jacob her son, saying,
Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
***
And God said,
Let the
earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit - after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself,
- after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
***
And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her
son, saying,
Behold, I
heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,
Bring me venison,
- and make me savoury
meat, - that I may eat,
and bless thee - before the Lord
- before my death.
Now
therefore,
my son, obey my
voice according to that
which I command
thee.
Go now to the flock, and fetch me
- from
thence two good
kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:
And thou
shalt bring it to thy father, that he
may eat, and that he may bless thee - before his death.
*****
And he
said unto him,
Take me
an heifer of
three years old,
and a she
goat of
three years old,
and a ram of
three years old,
and a turtledove,
and a young pigeon.
And he
took unto him
all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece - one again-st -an-other:
*****
With my soul
have I desired thee in the night;
yea,
with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for
when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Let favour be shewed to the
wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness:
in the land
of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.
*****
And God
said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
And God
created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind,
and every winged fowl after
his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God blessed them, saying,
Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas,
and let
fowl multiply in the earth.
***
As birds flying, so will the Lord
of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending
also he
will deliver it;
and passing over he
will preserve it.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols
of gold, which your own hands have made unto
you for a sin.
Then shall the
Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall
devour him: but he
shall flee from the sword, and his young
men shall be discomfited.
And he
shall pass over to his strong
hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire
is in Zion, and his furnace
in Jerusalem.
*****
but the
birds divided he
not.
And when the
fowls came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away.
*****
And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl
of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam - there was not found an help meet for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,
and he
slept:
and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
*****
And when the sun was going
down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram;
and, - lo,
an horror of great
darkness fell upon him.
And he
said unto Abram,
Know of a surety that thy seed
shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them;
and they shall afflict them - four hundred years;
And also
that nation, whom they
shall serve, will I judge: and afterward
shall they come out with great substance.
*****
Then shall the Assyrian
fall with the sword, not of a
mighty man; and the sword,
not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear,
and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign,
saith the Lord,
whose fire is in Zion,
and his furnace in Jerusalem.
Behold,
a king shall reign
in righteousness,
and princes
shall rule in judgment.
*****
And thou
shalt go to thy fathers in peace;
thou shalt be
buried in a good old age.
And it
came to pass, that, when the sun
went down, and it
was dark, behold a smoking
furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
saying,
Unto thy
seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
The Kenites,
and the
Kenizzites,
and the
Kadmonites,
And the Hittites,
and the
Perizzites,
and the
Rephaims,
And the
Amorites,
and the Canaanites,
and the
Girgashites,
and the
Jebusites.
ISamuelYea
